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Gina & Mike (The Yearbook Series (2013)

by Buffy Andrews(Favorite Author)

3.48 of 5 Votes: 4

languge

English

genre

Romance

publisher

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

series

Yearbook

review 1: I'm not sure if this was a free read or one of Amazon's deals of the day. It wasn't bad, and the most interesting thing, to me, was the fact that the main characters were almost 40. Oh my God! Romance for characters older than 21?!?Other than that, there really is no question as to how the book is going to end, but the journey is a little different from most, and Ms. Andrews seems to enjoy making her characters suffer.The story: Gina and Mike were high school sweet hearts, who around Christmas of their senior year fully looked like they'd go on to their happily ever after. Until the unthinkable happened and Gina lost her footing, and in an effort to not take Mike down with her, ended it. Twenty years later, they meet again at their high school reunion.This book is not... more for the faint hearted. There is a graphic attack that is revisited several times. That attack was more graphic than the actual romance, which detracted from the story.There was a suggestion of a potential love triangle, and frankly, that might have been an intriguing path for the story to take. There were a lot of different plot threads, which made the book needlessly complicated, although, I suppose, such is life.I wasn't sure what the point of the yearbook comments and Gina's little essays were at the end (other than it wasn't your typical romance epilogue: one year later they have a bundle of joy, blah blah blah). I sort of thought that maybe that's where Ms. Andrews started and just decided to throw them in at the end.
review 2: This was such a fun book to read. Ok so let me rephrase. It was a sad and trying book because the drama was killing me. It was fun because I love how the author switches POV's between the two main characters often. In any given chapter you can go back and forth a couple of times, I happen to really enjoy it. As for the story it was so exhausting. You know from the blurb what happened to Gina and that it tore her and Mike apart. A good chunk of the beginning of this story takes place in the past showing you what happened. Ok so then we jump ahead 20 years and all I can think is wow that is a lot of wasted time. Mike is this fantastic guy who loved his girl and had no clue what happened. Gina was a loving girlfriend whose life was ripped apart and didn't know how to cope. The entire time I'm reading I wanted to scream TELL HIM but life kept getting in the way. It was a sad book but with a very happy ending. The drama just kept coming and I kept wondering when will my HEA come. I enjoyed reading this story, it had humor and sadness but the story was so well done. It was a quick read, at least for me, and I was sad to see it end. I was very excited that I already had book 2 ready to go. less

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